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  2. Offshore aquaculture - Wikipedia

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    Offshore aquaculture, also known as open water aquaculture or open ocean aquaculture, is an emerging approach to mariculture (seawater aquafarming) where fish farms are positioned in deeper and less sheltered waters some distance away from the coast, where the cultivated fish stocks are exposed to more naturalistic living conditions with ...

  3. Tuna penning - Wikipedia

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    Tuna penning is a practice used in marine aquaculture, in which smaller tuna are caught off shore and moved back to large, in-water enclosures.The pens are typically located in the relatively shallow waters of sheltered areas, such as bays or coves. [1]

  4. Aquaculture of cobia - Wikipedia

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    Their rapid growth rate in aquaculture, as well as the high quality of their flesh, makes cobia potentially one of the more important potential marine fish for aquaculture production. [3] Currently, cobia are cultured in nurseries and grow-out offshore cages in many parts of Asia and off the coast of the United States, Mexico and Panama.

  5. Cobia - Wikipedia

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    Following the success of cobia aquaculture in Taiwan, emerging technology is being used to demonstrate the viability of hatchery-reared cobia in collaboration with the private sector at exposed offshore sites in Puerto Rico and the Bahamas, and the largest open ocean farm in the world is run by a company called Open Blue off the coast of Panama ...

  6. Aquaculture in Australia - Wikipedia

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    The aquaculture sector involves the collection of broodstock and production of fingerlings for grow out in sea cages, which are located in offshore and inshore waters. A specialist fleet of vessels performs feeding and harvesting operations at sea, with the most common working hours occurring between 4:00 am and 7:59 – 8:00 pm.

  7. Fishing industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Aquaculture, in the United States, includes the farming of hatchery fish and shellfish which are grown to market size in ponds, tanks, cages, or raceways, and released into the wild. Aquaculture is also used to support commercial and recreational marine fisheries by enhancing or rebuilding wild stock populations.

  8. Aquaculture in New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    Of that area, 7,713 ha is in established growing areas and is owned by the aquaculture industry, 4,010 ha is used to enhance the wild scallop fishery and belongs to the Challenger Scallop Enhancement Company, [6] and 2,465 ha is an exposed site six kilometres offshore from Napier where trials are being undertaken by a private company to test ...

  9. Crab fisheries - Wikipedia

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    The following table summarises crab production from 2000 to 2008, both caught wild and from aquaculture, in tonnes. [1] [4] ... Distribution map: